Manny
Names: Mannymannies
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 67 (67. Bad News)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 67Manny is an android with a carbon-fiber skeleton and memory-plastic muscles, giving the operator realistic neural feedback but looking like a mannequin.
- Ch 69Manny has full sensory input but cannot yet smile or eat.
- Ch 70Manny is being upgraded to look like Original Bob, with believable hair and skin and the ability to eat.
- Ch 75The upgraded Manny can now smile normally and conveys sensations like breeze and touch to Howard.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 7Manny is the name of Howard's android body, which cannot yet cry.
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 21The new mannies have the realistic mass of the species they imitate and contain nanites that heal wounds quickly.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 67Manny completed
Dexter finishes building the android Manny at Vulcan; Bridget tells Howard Stéphane has only weeks left and is mostly not lucid.
- Book 2 · Ch 69Stéphane's memorial
Howard attends Stéphane's memorial on Vulcan in the android Manny, hugs Bridget, and meets her children, who know him from Stéphane's stories.
- Book 2 · Ch 75Howard and Bridget reunite
Howard, in the upgraded Manny, walks up to Bridget's porch and takes her hands for their long-awaited meeting.